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awesome-lisp-languages
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dundalek / awesome-lisp-languages

awesome-lisp-languages

A list of Lisp-flavored programming languages

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A list of Lisp-flavored programming languages

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Observed mentions: 2019-11-25 06:03:49 UTC to 2022-10-26 15:57:52 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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> I just with there was a Lisp like it that didn't run on the JVM. There are a few, with varying degrees of distance from the JVM and varying degrees of similarity to Clojure. - There's ClojureScript, which is Clojure transpiled to JavaScript. - See also Lumo (<https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo>) and Planck (<https://planck-repl.org/guide-all.html>) - There's Babashka (https://github.com/babashka/babashka), which is a natively-compiled Clojure interpreter, implemented with the Small Clojure Interpreter (https://github.com/babashka/sci) and GraalVM for native compilation. - There's Joker (https://github.com/candid82/joker) with a similar mission to Babashka, but commonly used as a linter. - There's ClojureCLR (https://groups.google.com/g/clojure-clr) on the Common Language Runtime. - There's Cloture (https://github.com/ruricolist/clot
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ure), which is Clojure in Common Lisp. - There's Clojerl (https://www.clojerl.org/), which is Clojure for the Erlang VM. - There's Pixie (https://blog.goodstuff.im/pixie), with Clojure syntax, but compiling to native. - There's Ferret (<https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret>) which is Clojure transpiled to C++11. - There are some Lisps that have borrowed Clojure's syntax: - Janet <https://janet-lang.org/> - Carp <https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp> There are a variety of other Lisp-like languages listed here: https://github.com/dundalek/awesome-lisp-languages Apologies for the formatting.
In Differences with other Lisps
Very cool project, great to see more s-expression based languages. I maintain a list of lisp-flavored languages [0], so I will add Cakelisp there. How did you implement the macro expansion? Are you translating the macros to C/C++, then compile it with C/C++ compiler and execute the temporary binary or do you have an interpreter for that? I work on a somewhat similar project called Liz, which is basically a lisp-flavored dialect of Zig [1]. I did not implement user-defined macros yet, planning to learn more about comptime and its limitations first. But the compiler itself uses macro-expansion to implement many features. [0] https://github.com/dundalek/awesome-lisp-languages [1] https://github.com/dundalek/liz
In Cakelisp: A Programming Language for Games

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